US 'kept Pakistani army Swat murders secret'

[KhyberKhan]

A deeply entrenched "culture of revenge" in the Pakistani army led to a spate of murders during fighting against the Taliban in Swat and the tribal belt, according to a secret US assessment last year.

But while US diplomats voiced private concerns about the killings – now admitted to number in the hundreds – they deemed it was better not to comment publicly in order to allow the Pakistani army to take action on its own.

Last October, one year after the assessment was sent to Washington, US officials made moves to sanction several Pakistani military units accused of the killings. Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, has also launched an investigation.

"A growing body of evidence is lending credence to allegations of human rights abuses by Pakistan security force" during fighting in the Swat valley and the tribal belt, the US ambassador, Anne Patterson, wrote in September 2009.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...=EMC-thewrap08

[abdul]

the first and third movies are torture and humiliation if you look at the soldiers you can see them laugh like its a game to them

the second video was pure overkill if you were going to kill them just put a bullet in they're head don't

@mi6
even prisoners have rights
and if i were you i wouldn't start saying things without knowing the truth

we have no idea that these people are taliban we only have the word of a cameramen and the officers which are clearly enjoining it
these man are not good sources of truth

[KhyberKhan]

M16 Thanks for derailing the thread with your ulterior motive of smearing anything to do with the Taliban even if its a discussion on ketchup, sure you'll point to how the redness shares a likeness of the blood someone the taliban killed, i wouldn't put it passed you....

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Now the thread is about kids being lined up and shot and the claim that these clips were somehow fake doesnt stand true. Its now apparent that they were killed simply for revenge which these leaks have now validated.

Let's focus on that...